This story contains extensive spoilers for The Morning Show season 4, episode 5, “Amari.” For the first three seasons of The Morning Show, Karen Pittman’s Mia Jordan is the glue that holds the fictional talk show TMS together. Even when the Apple TV series starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon veers into wild territory—including a space launch over a year before Gayle King’s—Mia weathers it all without getting the recognition or Head of News promotion she deserves. That is, until season 4, when she decides to quit TMS’s thankless game and play by her own rules.
“It's like when you finally break it off with that toxic boyfriend that you've been in a relationship with for years and years and years,” Pittman tells Marie Claire over Zoom. “You're like, look, this is not off and on, off and on. This is off and it's off, period.”
